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General CommentNo one has commented on "The Vigil" before me? What a shame that such an amazing song falls to the wayside. Well, this song is about the speaker's longing for the aliens to come and rescue humanity from its current disaster.

General CommentThis is my favorite all time BOC song and I am a fan, and have every record, including
what they still do. Mirrors is also my favorite album, it was different, but cool still.
Close behind are Cultosaurus and Fire of Unkown.... but I like them all!!

I am sure that there would be more posts here, but especially for BOC, the song is
pretty self-explanatory. And man is it ever more and more relevant as the years go by.

They also wrote "Take me away" with a similar meaning.

I agree. We've fucked up pretty good, and it's scary. The religious freaks are going
to do something major. The planet and the weather is jacked up with carbon emissions
and global warming. I'm not religious, but there has got to be some justice, somehow,
somewhere, some time, about how greedy fucking corporations and filthy wealthy people
have raped the land, stepped on people, and pocketed billions while 20% of people are
unemployed and losing their homes. The prisons and battlefields are full of poor people.
While the rich are guilty for making all the messes.
Justice has to come some how. But we might have gone too far.

Aliens wouldn't want any part of us, seeing how we kill each other throughout time.

they are just waiting until we finally go too far, then wait for the earth to shake us off,
and colonize. hell, maybe that's already happened. There's a lot of shit that we can't
explain, like the Egyptian pyramids...

General CommentThe song, "The Vigil" is about some friends of the band who are UFO-watchers. The line "27 faces, with their eyes turned to the sky" may refer to the VLA (Very Large Array), a set of 27 radio telescopes (there actually is a 28th, but it only gets used as a backup if one of the 27 fails). The site, located in New Mexico (near Socorro), was completed right about the time *Mirrors* was released.